Cory Booker: Wind at President Obama’s back

Democratic Newark Mayor Cory Booker said Monday that President Barack Obama has “the wind at his back” as he enters his second term with a public consensus on several major issues.

“Nothing worthwhile is easy and every inch of ground the president is going to have to gain. But there’s a lot of wind at his back right now, and I’m not saying it’s lay-ups, but this is a president who has delivered through his first term,” Booker said on CNN’s “Starting Point.”

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Booker — who recently said that he is considering a primary in 2014 to unseat Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) — said that there’s a “great path forward” to deal with economic, foreign policy and that he can even find consensus on heated issues like gun control.

“You know what, there’s a lot of consensus in the country despite it’s a very divisive issue, but if you think about it — on guns, there’s a lot of consensus ground for him to work on and do some very positive things to make cities all places all across America safer,” Booker said on CNN.